CERTIFIED WEIRD: Silent Night is an unbalanced black comedy with little laughs

The concept behind Camille Griffin’s holiday black comedy Silent Night had potential, but the tonal balance of the film betrays the comedy elements, melodrama, and warped sentimentality. It sets out to make a Hallmark moment Holiday extravaganza while looking directly into the eye of impending doom. The ensemble piece takes center stage at the end of the world slash Christmas get-together, as the script slowly but surely reveals more damning plot details.  … More CERTIFIED WEIRD: Silent Night is an unbalanced black comedy with little laughs

Happy Birthday Martin Scorsese: ranking his weirdest films

Martin Scrosese isn’t known for the avant-garde. He certainly takes ideas from those directors and creatives and incorporates some into his films, but he works within the conventions of modern film and doesn’t deviate too far. That said, Scorsese is an unfettered weird person with a deeply contemplative disposition that sees past archetypes and explores people at their core. This idealistic view of humanity leads him to bizarre discoveries in his work
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